Laying the table, sentence 0
When a table is laid, every person gets a knife, a fork and a spoon: 3 pieces of cutlery for each person.
Who acts: person · What happens: lay, get · To what, where: table, knife
This is a sentence of the lesson «Laying the table» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 laid | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | aux:pass |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gets | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | nsubj |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fork | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fork | det |
| 14 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knife | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spoon | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spoon | det |
| 17 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knife | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 pieces | punct |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 pieces | nummod |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knife | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cutlery | case |
| 22 | cutlery | cutlery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pieces | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 person | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 person | det |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pieces | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present · passive | a table | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | get | present | every person | a knife and a fork and a spoon | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:lessons:253-laying-the-table.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/253-laying-the-table/0/